BIES: Stanley Lapidus, Healthcare Entrepreneur and Inventor

A monthly conversation about medicine, biology, computers, and entrepreneurship.
About this Event

Hosted by Harvard Office of Technology Development and the HMS Dept. of Biomedical Informatics.

Open to all, in person at Harvard Medical School, Gordon Hall Room 106, The Waterhouse Room or online via Zoom.

In-person networking with food and drink from 5:00-5:30pm, followed by presentation by speaker at 5:30pm, broadcasted online via Zoom.

Featured Speaker:

Stanley Lapidus, Inventor and Entrepreneur. Founding CEO of Cytyc Corp. and EXACT Sciences

This Entrepreneurs Salon will be hosted by Isaac Kohane, Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.

Location:

We are pleased to return for another hybrid Salon event. All are welcome to join us at Gordon Hall, Room 106, The Waterhouse Room, at Harvard Medical School in Boston. For those unable to attend in person, we welcome you to join us on Zoom (access the Zoom registration link via Eventbrite's "Online Event Page" after registering with Eventbrite). However you plan to join us, please register here with Eventbrite.

This Entrepreneurs Salon will be hosted by Isaac Kohane, Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.

Stan Lapidus is an inventor and entrepreneur who currently serves on a number of healthcare and medical technology boards.

He was the founding CEO of three medical diagnostics companies. Two of them have been notably successful.

Cytyc Corp., which he founded in 1987, revolutionized early detection of cervical cancer by developing the modern Pap test—the ThinPrep. The two ThinPrep prototypes are at the Smithsonian’s American Museum of National History.

EXACT Sciences, which he founded in 1995, pioneered non-invasive early detection of colorectal cancer through its Cologuard test. Since its introduction, Cologuard has become one of the fastest-growing tests in the history of the diagnostics industry.

Stan holds 37 patents, primarily in methods for early detection of cancer. He served as an instructor at MIT from 2001 to 2017, focusing on designing, conducting, and analyzing clinical trials.

He was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering for his contributions to early cancer detection.

Stan graduated from Cooper Union in New York City with a BS degree in electrical engineering.

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